![]() ![]() ![]() stiffening, slowing down this, speeding up that) will help them to cover ground faster but with the trade off of a rougher ride what will potentially fatigue them more. But as they improve, they will find that a small tweak (e.g. A beginner shouldn't start out with stiff suspension as they won't have the experience of skills to handle a rough riding bike. They hit rough stuff twice as fast as we do and therefore soft settings would bottom out too often and ruin the ride. Stiff can be fast, but fast requires stiff. Pros will ALWAYS run settings stiff but thats because they go fast in the first place. So the take home message from this article could be: Run what suits you and alter the settings to suit the course. They rarely (if ever) resemble anything like the European races and thats nothing to do with the fact that we don't have real mountains. I think its fair to say that the racing format that most of us would think about was born in Alpine Europe and yet here in Australia we hold "Enduro" events on tracks that really only require a 120mm hard tail, provide an uplift vehicle and the idea of multi stage is simply to do another run from the same starting point either on the same track or "the other" track. Enduro is different according to every opinion out there and will vary considerably with the location. Given that there is no clear definition as to what Enduro is (I thought Enduro was a race format for a riding style that could be described as DH like descents with XC flats and climbs), in some ways, the article is 100% spot on. ![]()
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